Top Dollar Quotes in The Crow (1994)

[after shooting the crow]

Top Dollar: Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!

Top Dollar: Our friend T-bird won't be joining us this evening on account of a slight case of death.

Top Dollar: Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!

[gazing at falling-snow crystal ball containing a mini-cemetery]

Top Dollar: Dad gave me this. Fifth birthday. He said, "Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die."

Eric Draven: I see you have made your decision, now let's see you enforce it.

Top Dollar: Aw, this is already boring the shit out of me. Kill 'im!

[Top Dollar noticed the crow on the table]

Top Dollar: How the hell did that thing get in here?

Eric Draven: Gentlemen!

Top Dollar: Ya know, my daddy used to say every man's got a devil. And you can't rest 'til you find him. What happened back there with you and your girlfriend - I cleared that building. Hell, nothin' in this town happens without my say-so. So I'm sorry if I spoiled your wedding plans there, friend. But, if it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face.

Top Dollar: For a ghost you bleed just fine.

Grange: I saw him too. He had a guitar. He winked at me before he jumped out a fourth floor window like he had wings.

Top Dollar: He winked at you?

[tsk]

Top Dollar: Musicians.

T-Bird: I got trouble. One of my crew got himself perished.

Top Dollar: Yeah, and who might that be?

T-Bird: Tin Tin, somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order.

Top Dollar: Well, gentlemen, by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin Tin.

[sniffs drugs]

Top Dollar: You ain't lost everything.

Gideon: Yeah? And maybe you're not such a big shot, either!

[Grange restrains him]

Gideon: Ow! Jesus!

Top Dollar: Fair enough. Catch.

[Top Dollar tosses an eyeball at him]

Gideon: Jesus.

Top Dollar: Say hello to the last fella who wouldn't cooperate with me.

Gideon: What are you telling me thi- You telling me this thing is real?

Top Dollar: All the power in the world rests in the eyes, fella.

Top Dollar: So you're him, huh? The Avenger. The Killer of Killers. Nice outfit. I'm not sure about the face, though.

Top Dollar: I think we broke her.

Top Dollar: No, I want you to set a fire so goddamn big, the gods'll notice us again, that's what I'm sayin'. I want all of you boys to be able to look me straight in the eye one more time and say: ARE WE HAVING FUN OR WHAT? Hey, you! What's your name? Skank? You don't feel that?

Skank: I feel like a little worm on a big fuckin' hook.

[All the other thugs laugh]

Top Dollar: "I feel like a little worm on a big fucking hook." Well, boy, your mama must be damn proud of you!

Top Dollar: Oh for fuck's sake, die, will ya?

Top Dollar: It's all been done before, you see what I'm sayin'?

Bad Ass Criminal: That's no reason to quit.

Top Dollar: Wrong. Best reason to quit. *Only* reason to quit.

Skank: [fast and hysterically] That's him! That's him! But he looked different. He was all painted up white like some sort of dead whore! I seen him! T-Bird he sent me in some road beers, right? Then he took him away. But, I chased him down. And he flash fried T-bird to his fucking car! Aww, T-Bird here's to you buddy.

[drinks his flask]

Skank: Fire it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!

Top Dollar: Maybe we oughta just video tape this, play it back in slow motion.

Top Dollar: Did you see the grave?

Grange: Empty.

Skank: [still hysterical] Grave? What grave? What about my fucking grave?

[Grange pushes him away]

Grange: Three out of four. He's working his way to this speed freak right here.

Skank: [still hysterical] It's not fair. It's Funboy's fault. That boy was outta control. T-bird, he came in, said...

[whistles]

Skank: Waste them both! And now this ghost gonna kill my ass next!

[Top Dollar suddenly slaps him down]

Grange: So that, I take it, was the late, great Eric Draven.

Myca: [studying the crow's feather] He has power. But it is power you can take from him.

Top Dollar: I like him already.

Myca: The crow is his link between the land of the living, and the realm of the dead.

Grange: So, kill the crow... and destroy the man.